Layers upon layers. What is “The Consortium?” What is the artifact? They claim it’s terrestrial, so who made it?
I’m liking this show more and more every week. Matt Frewer is back, and the daughter was nowhere to be seen. Plenty of room to move around here.
Only one thing bothers me about the show. They’re sitting around worrying about budgets and congressional grants. But they have forcefields and holographic projectors and solar cars and infinite resolution televisions. Any of these could be marketed for billions. Further, none of this cool stuff has made it out into the real world (as a military weapon or otherwise). It’s going to be harder and harder for them to explain that away.
This episode seemed “out of order” to me…
1.) No daughter
2.) No fancy house
3.) Bitter Deputy
Yet, Stark was ‘established’ (sherrif already seemed to know him).
Other than that, I liked the episode… what I didn’t get is
‘was the congressman really an alien’?.. his face did that contortion thing a couple of times…
re: the artifact, I do not think they said it was terrestrial, but that it was “recovered”… i’ll have to go watch again…
And we now have the name of the “bad group”…
Favorite line:
Well, we can scratch that off my to-do list.
Or, we can keep it on and do it again later.
Well, that can be explained several ways. I isn’t released onto the marketplace because a) they would have to explain where it came from, and b) foreign powers could then reverse-engineer it and advance their own militaries too far. As for the military hardware…let’s just say there is stuff out there, at Groom Lake and other places, that you and I have no idea about! 
I don’t think he was an alien. I thank that the few times we saw his face squirm we were seeing through the paranoiacs’ eyes.
I’m pretty sure they did way it was terrestrial, though I could easily be wrong. Anyone remember?
Personally, I’m really liking this series. I can’t wait to see where they go with the artifact.
Yeah, that bugged me as well.
“Oh, you weren’t that impressed by the paranoid monkey experiment, and now you’re going to cut off our funding? Here, take a look at this memory erasing device from last episode.”
flash!
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“Hey, want to see our paranoid monkey experiment and then talk about our funding?”
Or the bullet/fire proof soldier suit that totally worked.
Did they give a reason they didn’t start production immediately on that one?
The earlier test showed that it was good for one/other - not both (or atleast not too quickly done together)…
The second test was never shown, ‘we don’t know’ if it works or not at that point.
We never saw it work, but she did say it would’ve.
Watched it again tonite…
Seems to me that the experiment/project was a total failure… sure it induced paranoia (you can get that with pot) but it didn’t cause the subjects to turn on each other… in fact, it seems it caused them to band together in ways they wouldn’t have otherwise.
Show was better on the seconf viewing… lots of subtlety that I missed the first time around… like the B&B woman’s ears perking up when Spence said he knew who the bad guy was (for the wrong reason, but still the bad guy)…Figrued Spence would be getting a cup o tea.
I’m waiting for the episode that lays in the ambiguity. Greenwalt is an Executive Producer, so you know it will be there. Some episode soon will reveal that the shrink might not really be evil, or that The Consortium are really the Good Guys, or some such.
I just want a couple of minutes with the pull-down weapons locker thingy. Some pretty cool looking stuff there. Do they still have the out-of-phase guy in a box in the lab or did the attempts to stabilize him work out?
I think they stabilized him. This might be a plot line later on in the season. How will the “real” wife deal with her “kid” and “husband?”
So many ways to play with this. I hope they take their time and really delve into the possibilities. On the plus side, it was the highest rated premiere in SciFi Channel history.
I think it has great potential. Often times they set up a premise that has too few central characters and no real opportunities to bring in new stuff. MAS*H had a large central group of diverse personalities and a regular influx. Same for Cheers.
This one has a great group. The “normal guy” sheriff, the physicist mechanic, the ex-special forces deputy, the who-knows-what B&B lady and one of my favorites, the Aussie animal control guy.
I also like that they have resisted integrating science-based fiction with ghosts, UFOs and the like. They have, in both cases, said “There’s no such thing as ghosts/UFOs” (as the case may be).
I hope that it doesn’t go the way of many of these things that I find I like and get the plug pulled for some idiotic reason.
I’m glad this thread popped up again; I thought of a question I wanted to ask.
When they had them watching the “happy movies” at the end to deprogram them from the paranoia beam, what was the female deputy watching? Himself & I thought it looked like a SEAL insertion or something, but I wasn’t sure. Did anyone else catch what it was?
Yes, that’s what it was. She is Special Forces and was smiling as she watched the screen. I remember the Sheriff saying something like “you sure got Deputy Whatshername right!”.
That’s what it looked like to me. Some Special Ops exercise or the like. Nicely done, I thought. Fits her personality.
It’s the subtle additions that really make the difference between basic writing and a superior show, I think.
Was it G.I.Jane?
You really can’t tell. Matt Frewer is watching koalas, Jo is watching a SEAL team drag a raft ashore. The other screens are hidden from view.